* James Holderness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-19 17:00]: > Sure you could do that, but it would be completely useless to a > typical feed reader, which is all I care about (and I thought > that was Brian's interest too).
Socialtext produces such feeds. I complained that they’re pretty useless in Liferea and was told that they work great in NetNewsWire, which all of the devs use, which is why no one felt a pressing need to provide diff feeds. Some feed readers are more typical than others. > What would be useful (to a feed reader) is the kind of feed > that Wikipedia already produces. That does a great job of > representing wiki history and it doesn't require tombstones of > any kind. Ever subscribe the history of a page that got merged or renamed? I wouldn’t say it does a great job, exactly. It conveys the minimum information necessary to be useful to clients without local change tracking and not really anything more. > I just don't see why we have to try and share the same protocol > if it means making my life more difficult. The newer proposal uses attribute-less child elements where the old one used attributes. I don’t see how that possibly makes your life more difficult. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
